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Pop top: 4 leadoff HRs begin 2 Friday tilts
- Updated: August 20, 2016
Several teams got off to quick starts on Friday with five leadoff hitters going deep in the first inning. It marked the first time five leadoff home runs were hit on the same day since Aug. 17, 2006.
Four of those leadoff homers came in two games — Astros at Orioles and Cubs at Rockies — which was also last done on that mid-August date 10 years ago.
Houston’s George Springer sparked the trend with a homer in the first at-bat at Camden Yards, and the Orioles responded with historic power surge, homering four times against Astros pitcher Collin McHugh in the bottom of the first. Those four home runs — by Adam Jones, Manny Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo — matched the Major League record for the first inning. It was the eighth time a big league club has …
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